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Historical Event on 8/6/1920
Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.

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6/5/1975	Ramsing, great freedom fighter and editor of `Navyug Patrika', passed away.
2/6/1953	Congress, PSP, CP and Jansangh recognised as All India parties by the Election Commission.
6/23/1661	Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal.
10/3/1907	Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born.
10/16/1952	Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi.
5/21/1994	Sushmita Sen (Miss India), 18, was crowned as the 43rd Miss Universe.
1/8/1992	Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
4/13/1796	The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India.
11/2/1972	ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
11/11/1973	India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi.

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